The Eighth Uncut Playlist Of 2011

Thanks to everyone who contributed to last week’s very interesting playlist thread. If you haven’t had a look, there’s some good talk about the Radiohead and REM albums; dubious thanks to John E, who successfully encouraged/goaded me into unpacking a good month or two’s worth of irritation with regard to “Collapse Into Now”. Better now.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to last week’s very interesting playlist thread. If you haven’t had a look, there’s some good talk about the Radiohead and REM albums; dubious thanks to John E, who successfully encouraged/goaded me into unpacking a good month or two’s worth of irritation with regard to “Collapse Into Now”. Better now.

Moving on, another slightly sketchy list this week: not sure what’s happening, but I seem to be hitting a bit of a lull at the moment, where even stuff I’d expect to like (the Peaking Lights album, for instance) isn’t quite doing it for me. I blame the cricket.

As I write, the doubtless hyped Jamie Woon album is on, and Mark has just suggested that the genre of post-XX music (James Blake, Woon etc) should be called Night Bus. Or Bus-step, maybe?… Canada vs Pakistan it is.